Alie Ward
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But yeah, the Born rule measures probability of a particle's position, and it came on the quantum scene in 1926.
Oy vey.
Yeah.
There's a lot going on.
There is a lot going on.
And so the notion of... Do you remember Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street?
Is there a Snuffleupagus rule?
Like...
Just side note, Carol Spinney is the actor and puppeteer who played Big Bird until his retirement last year.
And also, did everyone else know his name and that he also voiced Oscar the Grouch?
Or do astrophysicists just have large brain buckets full of trivia?
Where were we?
Yes.
Okay.
So the wave function that describes the place of a tiny particle collapses to a point when it's observed.
This is wave function collapse.
Does observing something make it exist differently?
OK, so then what does that mean for us?
Like if I am a wave function until someone looks at me and then I'm not.
Yeah.